Idea for a videogame "TMNT: The Action Figure Video Game"
 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Action Figure videogame.

This is a strange idea, I know, but I wanted to share it, although it is only a dream ‘cause I don’t know how to make a videogame and don’t have the required time either. It would be great as a beat’em all old school game. :D

The idea would be to make a videogame with all the characters released in Playmates vintage toys, at least the villains mainly. This idea came to my mind remembering when I was a child and used to tell my little cousin to chose one of the four turtles to start a kind of imaginative videogame. Then, mainly in christmas, when our parents bought us a new figure, we used every single element of a room (furniture, sofas etc...) to simulate the different stages of the game, chosing the bosses of every level previously, before he came. So I have always imagined a video game which contemplated the magic of the toys eventhough some of the toys are not completely accurate with the cartoon ones.

Levels


The city
Here, as in the game I liked the most, we will walk with our turtle and the hordes of Foot soldiers will come to defeat us, foot cruisers plenty of them, and a great pair of bosses coming from a mutant module... Bebop and Roksteady... yes both together.

The sewers
After defeating them we will go straight down through the hole made by the digger machine to get to the sewers, which are plenty of foot soldiers and mousers coming from the broken walls...and there a fly waits for us. Baxter tells us after being crushed that the Shredder and Krang placed some bombs all arround the world and that the password to enter the Technodrome is in the Dimension X. He crosses a Dimensional portal and we follow him to discover a room with other sub portals or doors to different levels to chose as in the Megaman games Saga. All the levels will have Foots and Mousers of course.


Dimension X (2 sublevels)
A red desertic surface where we will fight a sub boss Dirtbag, and at the end some bars like in Star Wars and there in the bars, surrounded by other mutants we will fight against Groundchuck.

After that we are taken by some dimensional police and condemned to death. and in the jail we will have two options: joining a crew of Neutrins against the spacial pirate Scaletail or facing our punishment: Fighting against the death sentence administrator called Antrax. If we want to clear the 100% of the game we will have to defeat Antrax and after that the reward hunter snake. Both have the password but before coming back to the portal we will have a Troop of triceratons and stone warriors and the General Traag waiting for us. After wining the battle we’ll release a strange creature named Needlenose which will act as a kind of magic like in the final fantasy games.




The city again (3 sublevels)

Here we have two paths: the inner city which is plenty of mess and a way to a prison outside the city. In the city we will try to concvince Muckman that we don’t have Joe eyeball (kidnapped by Shredder) and we will have to use our strength again. If you are one of this kind who investigate you will enter a dark street which says “mess in progress” and will fight a secret sub boss called Wyrm which later will be used as a helping character against “the one who messed all up”.If we take the second path towards the prison, we will see there’s nobody there and the sound of alarms will make us going to a prison where a gigantic bee is trying to destroy one of the jails by using a chain linked to its body. So Killer bee is ready to attack. Thanks God we have a mosquito friend. Unfortunately the bee’ mission is cleared and a Crafty burglar cat steals us the password and shows us a bomb in his hands. In one of the corridors of the jails we will fight Scratch..

After that he throws the bomb through one prison window and falls into a Foot soldier’s pizza deliverer who runs away towards a town Pizzeria. We will follow him in a “Skate level” experience to get to Pizza face Restaurant and finaly get our bomb.

Who wants to finish the story? Don’t forget about the great figure Chrome Dome and my dear Toon Shredder... Change whatever you want, imagination is the key!!

Nice idea by the way. Usually when I play, I just make it a big gauntlet and the TMNT making there way up to Shredder, and before they fight Shredder they have to face other big villians.

And is it okay if I could share my idea for a video game on your thread? I have a great idea.

For some reason reading this makes me want to see a Lego TMNT game.

And is it okay if I could share my idea for a video game on your thread? I have a great idea.[/QUOTE]

Of course you can.Maybe one day, one videogame creator could use tmnt fans ideas to create a complete vintage game.

Someone has already started this idea... It is basic but it very similar to what you are talking about...

http://www.turtle-power.co.uk/

-ms

wait so you mean like have all the villains that didnt appear in the cartoon into a video game? or just the action figures fighting?

It doesn't matter, if the action figures appear I will be pleased but if the game is even more extensive... wow!!:D

Yeah it is great! but I meant a beat'em all history mode game like the arcade one or the turtles in time.

Might be fun to see, but talk about the niche of the niche... probably would sell about 5 copies, and 4 of those copies would be Technodrome board members.

That was funny, fun, & awsome!

I know and you're right but... It would be one of my favourite vintage video games!! And the ones who apreciated it, would be very glad to have such a great jewel to evoke their childhood memories.:D

Thanks man.:) I finally finished.

This game is more 2k3 based and I have a good way to sorta of sum up the series in video game form.

Gameplay

The game could be more stealthy and have an Arkham Asylum feel but co op. Because I like the way the camera changed from when he's being sneaky to when he's free flowing, which fits well for a cool TMNT game. It should also be dark and gritty. And the graphics should also be top notch with of course 2 player co op.

Story

As you read the story try to visualize what the game would look like and the parts of the story that could be levels and cutscenes. And keep in mind that this game should be Arkham Asylum esque.(For those who had played the game)

Chapter 1

It could start off with the TMNT's lair getting destroyed and the TMNT needing to fight Mousers and make their way topside and meet with Splinter. As they fight Purple Dragon and meet with the Foot for the first time, they lose their battle with the foot, so they leave and steel a stolen armored truck to meet with Splinter. They find a new home and plot revenge against the creator of the Mousers that destroyed their home. So the TMNT go from rooftops fighting Foot Ninjas to alleys fighting Purple Dragons all the way to Stocktronics.

Chapter 2

The TMNT make there way to Stockman leaving a trail of destroyed Mousers, knocked out Guards behind them and without being detected. As they confront Stockman they get distracted by a woman in need (April) about to get eaten by mousers, so they help her at the price of Stockman getting away. They take her back to the sewers and blah blah blah... Then she tells them that she over heard Stockman talking to a man named Hun, and mention something about "Oroku Saki not being happy", but she got caught over hearing, which explains Stockman trying to feed her to mousers.(from this point on in the game April begins to be what Oracle is to Batman but to the TMNT) As the TMNT go and patrol the streets of New York to bash Purple Dragon butt, they encounter a wack bag vigilante (Casey Jones) trying to kill some Purple Dragons, (Boss Fight) but the TMNT stop him and befriends him. As they are going to take him to the lair they get interrupted by Hun and the Purple Dragon. (Boss Fight) The TMNT and there new ally Casey Jones stop Hun and make him spill the beans on the whereabouts of Oroku Saki.

Chapter 3

The TMNT and Casey go to the sewers and introduce there new backup to April and Splinter. Now the TMNT are planing there attack while Donnie is fixing up the armored truck they stole and turning it into the Battle Shell, but they get interrupted by a loud roar in the sewers. So Donnie quickly checks his cameras and sees a giant mysterious figure. They go to investigate this giant creature they think could be harmful to them, as they check out the sewers and follow foot prints they get attacked by Stockman's leftover mousers that were dumped into the sewers. They see the big mutant and use there ninja skills to avoid being seen while getting closer to it. When they confront this big mutant, (Leatherhead) they piss him off and get attacked by it. (Boss Fight) After they beat and calm down the big mutant, he apologizes and explains his anger issues, and how he thought they were enemies. They befriend him and keep contact with him from this point on. As the TMNT go topside they discover they are being invaded by aliens! (Triceratons) They try to call Leatherhead for back up with their Shell Cell but Leatherhead doesn't respond. The Turtles don't have time to deal with him so they sneak their way to the aliens ship without being caught by soldiers or aliens. As they find themselves in the ship the door closes behind them and they see that they are surrounded by big dinosaur alien brutes.

Chapter 4

The TMNT go through epic battles until they get to there Prime Leader. They threaten to kill him unless he leaves there planet. So the Triceratons flee out of the planet and the TMNT like the sound of going home. But they find themselves surrounded and captured by commandos. They wake up and see each other strapped up to tables and a strange man with a trench coat (Bishop) torturing some big creature (Leatherhead). Meanwhile Splinter worries about the TMNT and feels something has gone wrong with them,(Now the players drift into another segment where they get to pay as Splinter, Casey, or April) So they do some detective work to find the TMNT, and eventually find Bishop's base and sneak through all the traps and commandos and find and free the TMNT and Leatherhead. (Boss Fight) The TMNT fight Bishop, and Leatherhead is to weak to fight from the torturing. After they defeat him, Bishop manages to escape. The Turtles head down to the sewers as fast as they can before anymore interruptions. They still remember there ultimate mission, taking down Oroku Saki. They take the Battle Shell all the way to Oroku Saki's building.

Chapter 5

The TMNT sneak past Foot and take them down silently until they are sneaked attacked by Foot Tech Ninjas. After they defeat them, they head higher up and run into some Foot Mystcs. (Boss Fight) They have a hard time taking them down until they trick them into taking each other out. They head higher up and just to run into some Foot Elite Guards. (Boss Fight) They go through a hard battle with them and finally win they go to the top floor. They have a rematch with Hun, (Boss Fight) but this time he is more agile then the first time they met. They defeat him and there is only one more door left. (Boss Fight) But a mysterious Foot lady (Karai) comes out from behind them and fight for a while until she can't take no more. They finally get what they wanted, they go through the door and see a menacing scary man covered in spiky armor (Shredder). He introduces himself and then they fight the fight of there lives. They defeat him in time before any of them could of died. They go back home and finally try to get some rest. Until they find out they need to train more so they are more prepared for the future.

I know that the story is recycled but it works for me.

I thought of cool features like a Verses mode and a Tournament mode featuring the Battle Nexus and extra characters from the Nexus. And between each chapter you could go roaming the TMNT's lair and talk to April, Casey, Splinter, and the other Turtles, and also upgrade your TMNT character and give them alternate outfits.

And that is all I got. Hope you guys liked it.

That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the topic title.

Good imagination Turo, your story is amazing and I am sure a lot of people would wanna play you game!! (including myself).

It could be great that in the menu you could chose a "vintage figure" arcade game with the characters I previously proposed, I mean the ones released in the first action figures. So we would have all the action figures: vintage and more recent.:D

A lego one... This is completely amazing as well. Video game makers hear our prayers!!:P

I hear you there. Seriously, videogame developers need to hear from fans and take all the good ideas that they like to know what they want.

And a LEGO TMNT, I could see that.

Time will tell and we will be there to enjoy those games!! But till this happens thank god we have the old video games to enjoy.:D

LOL for real. But I'm looking forward to passing TMNT 1-3 on Gamecube with my Bro.